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Senior Editors

Karen Rile
Founding Editor, EIC
Fiction
Web Editor, Graphics

Lauren Rile Smith
Founding Editor
Development & Grants
Resident Acrobat

Sydney Tammarine
Creative Nonfiction
Internship Director
Nonfiction Clinic

Tricia Park
Associate Workshop Director

Claire Ole

Claire Oleson
Poetry
Contest Manager

Layla Murphy
Newsletter
Writing Tips 

Kathryn Kulpa
Flash

Lise Funderburg
Creative Nonfiction

Autumn Konopka
Book Reviews
Author Interviews

Emily Steinberg
Visual Narrative

Mark Danowsky
 Poetry Craft Essays

Lisa Romeo
Prose Craft Essays

Administrative Staff

Jen Mathy
Social Media Manager 

Jackson Tatge
Multimedia Designer

Ariel Diliberto
Bookkeeper

Editorial Staff

Andrea Caswell
Fiction
Fiction Clinic

Hana S. Elysia
Flash, Fiction

Moriah Hampton
Fiction

Sonya Lara
Fiction

Ingrid Hartzell Gallegos
Fiction

Anna Llewellyn
Fiction

Coralie Loon
Fiction

Reilly Cundiff
Flash

Nikki Caffier Smith
Fiction, Flash

Andrea Marcusa
Flash

Madeleine Gavaler
Fiction

Miriam Camitta
Fiction

Nicole Sellew
Fiction

Book Review Editorial Staff

Emma Parzybok
Book Reviews 
Author Interviews

Joy Manning
Book Reviews 
Author Interviews

Fall 2025 Interns

Camille Cropley
Intern

Willow Campbell
Intern

Anthony Brown
Intern

Kaley Mize
Intern

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